Re: [patch -mm 1/2] oom: badness heuristic rewrite

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:02:13 +0900 (JST)
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> > On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:12:26 +0900 (JST) KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:16:33 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > This a complete rewrite of the oom killer's badness() heuristic 
> > > > 
> > > > Any comments here, or are we ready to proceed?
> > > > 
> > > > Gimme those acked-bys, reviewed-bys and tested-bys, please!
> > > 
> > > If he continue to resend all of rewrite patch, I continue to refuse them.
> > > I explained it multi times.
> > 
> > There are about 1000 emails on this topic.  Please briefly explain it again.
> 
> Major homework are
> 
> - make patch series instead unreviewable all in one patch.

Sometimes that's not very practical and the splitup isn't necessarily a
lot easier to understand and review.

It's still possible to review the end result - just read the patched code.

> - kill oom_score_adj

Unclear why?

> - write test way and test result

I think David's done quite a bit of that?

> So, I'm pending reviewing until finish them. I'd like to point out 
> rest minor topics while reviewing process.

I think I'll merge it into 2.6.36.  That gives us two months to
continue to review it, to test it and if necessary, to fix it or revert
it.

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